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The selling of A123 as easy as 1-2-3

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
12/27/2012 08:06:34 AM EST

The Chinese government has OK'd one of its puppet companies buying of another bankrupt U.S. firm.

This time it is A123, the Waltham-based battery manufacturer. Nevermind that A123 received $130 million in Department of Energy grants. Nevermind we're contemplating selling more technology we developed to a country that would like to take us off the face of the earth and is working toward that end.

Back in the '60s Nikita Khrushchev said that we (the U.S.A.) would sell our souls for a dollar. He knew us so well, even back then. Why let the Chinese buy another U.S. company and all the technology developed? The company could not find buyers for the batteries it produced for electric cars. Electric cars are a farce as presently developed. Some day they will be excellent modes of transportation with better ranges and charging systems.

It does not mean the batteries were deficient; other uses could be developed. Surely refinements in the technology can be made and applications found for the batteries. We already have it here; we already own it. Why sell it to the Chinese, then have to buy the product in a cheapened version for more money? Are we stupid?

We must not sell another piece of our technological pie to the Chinese; they already steal enough of them when they can. They are slowly taking everything from us; we are allowing it and slowly selling out our country.

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